Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-25
NEWS MOTIFS GATHERED HERE AND
THERE ar RALEIGH.
Escape Of Prisoners from Jsil-rhs Supreme
Court kasoaic-A Receiver
Appointed.

OdN LOT lut uolluufo.
4 publicinstallation of Masonic officers
will be held here Tuesday, conducted by
Grand Secretary Donald w. Balm aud
Past Grand Master Eugene Grissom.
The weather is very bad throughout
the State. A great deal OF nln has
fallen. The streams east Of Goldsboro
are very full.
John w. Hinsdale and Ernest Hay
wood of this city. have been appointed
by the United States District Court re-
ceivers of the North Carolina Milestone
Company, Of ParkewoOd. Moore county.
The property involved amounts to
So. 900. and the debts are over &l5O,OOO.
Practically no public business will be
done for the next week. Governor
Scales and Treasurer Balm will spend
their holidays here the Auditor will be
at his home in Gates county; the Secre-
tary of State will pass the time with re-
latiyes in Pitt county; Attorney General
Davidson will enjoy the pleasures OF
life at Asheville for time. and the
Superintendent OF Public Instruction
will pass few days at Newton.
Judge Merrimou, of the Superior
Court, has reconsidered his plan 81 re-
signing this wintar, and it was stated to-
day that he would not do 50 before next
summer.
Lieutenant Governor Charles NJ.
Stedman, who is, by. the way, very
prominently mentioned rs a candidate
for Governor, says he believes the cam
paign next year will begin very early.
The Republicans hold their convention
in May, and it is probable that the
Democrats will hold theirs the same
month. The campaign, says Lieutenant
Governor Stedman, must be and will be
an aggressive one from its very start 1t
no doubt will be. Any lukegarmncss
will be fatal. The Republicans and In
pendents will certainly seek to carry the
Legislature. very prominent Republic
can remarked to-day: "The Democrats
are talking about who they will elect
senator. They had better wait and see
if they can have the Legislature first. %
Though there is confessedly and unfor-
tunatoly great deal of dissension and
grumbling, yet it may be assumed as
fact that the Independents will not
figure as prominently as they did in
1886.
1t gives great pain to his old friends in
the State to learn that Mr. Wiley j.
Palmer is in the insane asylum at Nor
canton. For many years he was princi-
pal OF the State institution for the deaf,
dumb. and blind here, and left it in 1872
to take the same position at Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada. He had a great repu-
tation in his field OF work. but disslpa-
ton wrecked his life 1t is one Of the
saddest stories of the day.
II is intimatod that another election
will be held in Wilmington on the ques-
ton of subscribing to the capital stock OF
the Wilmington, OuslOw and East Caro-
lima railway. The decision OF the Su
preme Court renders the recent election
null and void. The people of Onslow
will vote next Tuesday on a $50, 600 sub
scription TO The same road. 1t is claimed
that the scheme will be carried through.
The plan is to have railway through
absolutely new territory from Whining
ton to Nowberne. The people of both
places say they will be benefited 10y the
construction Of the road, and the inter-
mediate country certainly needs develop
ment.
The colored peoples fair at Wilson
begins next Tuesday. 1t is rather an
odd v0ture-a fair during the Christmas
holidays-but its managers promise that
it shall be creditable. 1t will continue
two days.
The premiums awarded at the State
Fair are at last being paid. The secreta-
r., Congressman Nichols, is here look
ing after the matter.
A large party of Richmond, Durham,
and Raleigh gentlemen will spend all
next week at Morehead City fox-hunt-
ing They will have Il superb pack of
thirty dogs, owned 10y Dir. James Boy
Ian, Of this city. Duck-hunting will also
be feature if the weeks sport. The
party will, by the courtesy of Mr. Julian
S. Carr, be very comfortably quartered
in the Atlantic Hotel
Colonel Isaac A. SugS's cotton-gin and
a lot Of cotton, near Greenville, Pitt
county, were burned few days since,
the fire being accidental. There was
500 insurance, and the loss Is about
$3.50.
The stockholders in the defunct Ma
tional Express Company, who are being
so heavily mulcted in suits in the United
States Circuit Courts at Charlotte aud
elsewhere, have at the latter place sue
ceeded in gettiny their case appealed,
and it will now 60 before IKE United
States Supreme Court. Judge Bond
ruled against the unfortunate stockhold-
ers. but Judge Dick, more merciful, dis
scented, and this dissent gets the case be-
fore the Supreme Court. Many North
Carolinians are interested in this matter,
and not only North Carolinians, but peo-
pie in other southern States.
The Atlantic Coast Line, or rather the
Wilmington and Weldon road, one of
its Joints, is pushing its "short-
below Fayetteville. 1t is only a ques-
ton OF months when trains will run from
Wilson Uia Fayetteville to Florence or
point near by, and thus save the
"round-by-the-elbow" trip by way of
Wilmington. The shortcut" will
then very nearly approximate straight
hne.
Wilmington has thus far this season
received 40, 200 bales Of cotton, $4,000
more than to this date last season. At
this rate the estimate Of 100000 bales
for the entire season will be reached.
While two sons OF Mr.. Joseph Banks. a
prominent farmer of Jones county, were
hunting Wednesday, one of them was
accidentally shot and instantly killed by
the other. Carelessness with the CUR,
caused the accident
The corner-stoney of an Episcopal
church, st. Pauls, was laid at Yanceboro'
yesterday.
Some people having remarked thatthe
Democratic officials did not do their full
duty, as the law requires, in seeking to
punish and capture violators of the in
ternal-revenue laws in this State, your
correspondent has made inquiry of
United States Marshal V. V. Richardson
as to the matter. Mr.. Richardson says
the enforcement of the laws is just as
vigorous as ever before. There is great
deal of illicit distilling, and perhaps
more Of it than there was two years ago,
but he claims that this is not due to any